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The Crown in Vogue / Robin Muir & Josephine Ross ; [foreword by Edward Enninful OBE].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Diego, California : Thunder Bay Press, [2022]Description: 304 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical table, portraits ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781667200484
  • 1667200488
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The old order & the new glamour -- The Crown in conflict -- The Windsors in wartime -- The new Elizabethan age -- The firm & the future -- Rock & royalty -- The way ahead -- Who's who in The Crown in Vogue -- The Royal Family tree.
Summary: Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's sister and returned as Lord Snowdon. The Queen's cousin, Vogue's Lord Lichfield proved an insightful photographer of royal style along with many of Vogue's fashion photographers including Horst, Norman Parkinson and David Bailey. With visual treasures from Vogue's unrivaled archive and contributions through the decades from the most perceptive of royal commentators - from Evelyn Waugh to Zadie Smith -The Crown in Vogue is the definitive, authoritative portrait of royalty in the modern age.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 941.082 M953 Available 33111011031578
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 941.082 M953 Available 33111010938161
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Vogue 's "special royal salute" to Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor.

" Vogue , like the royal family, has been through many evolutions of its own, and to view Her Majesty's life through the record of our pages is truly a document of history." --Edward Enninful, Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue and European Director of Vogue

The Crown in Vogue is an extensively illustrated tribute to the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II and to the British Royal Family from the pages of British Vogue . Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. The Crown in Vogue is the magazine's "special royal salute" to our longest-serving monarch and her "assured and unwavering" presence in the lives of a nation.

Vogue 's first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's sister and returned as Lord Snowdon. The Queen's cousin, Vogue 's Lord Lichfield, proved an insightful photographer of royal style along with many of Vogue 's fashion photographers, including Horst, Norman Parkinson, and David Bailey. With visual treasures from Vogue 's unrivaled archive and contributions through the decades from the most perceptive of royal commentators--from Evelyn Waugh to Zadie Smith-- The Crown in Vogue is the definitive, authoritative portrait of Queen Elizabeth II's magnificent reign--and of royalty in the modern age.

Includes index.

The old order & the new glamour -- The Crown in conflict -- The Windsors in wartime -- The new Elizabethan age -- The firm & the future -- Rock & royalty -- The way ahead -- Who's who in The Crown in Vogue -- The Royal Family tree.

Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's sister and returned as Lord Snowdon. The Queen's cousin, Vogue's Lord Lichfield proved an insightful photographer of royal style along with many of Vogue's fashion photographers including Horst, Norman Parkinson and David Bailey. With visual treasures from Vogue's unrivaled archive and contributions through the decades from the most perceptive of royal commentators - from Evelyn Waugh to Zadie Smith -The Crown in Vogue is the definitive, authoritative portrait of royalty in the modern age.

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